{"product_id":"ricochet-script-paperback","title":"Ricochet Script - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Van De Kamp\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra van de Kamp's \u003cem\u003eRicochet Script\u003c\/em\u003e examines life as a plot slipping from our hands, veering in unexpected directions as years coalesce behind us. These poems bargain with time as a foreign, surreal, and elusive entity, where whole days can feel as if they were \"written\/in someone else's script.\" In vivid, at times playful musings, van de Kamp grapples with midlife, loss, and the strangeness of the body, while never forgetting the unrelenting beauty of being alive. These poems invoke a wide range of storylines, from Hitchcock's\u003cem\u003e Lifeboat\u003c\/em\u003e and spy thrillers to aging parents, to confront the unpredictable and ricocheting world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexandra van de Kamp tells us \"I want to make sense of abundance.\" In her beautifully wrought poems, we experience the sheer delight of all the sights, smells, and sounds of this world. Yet few poets are as deft at simultaneously evoking the precarity and consequent tenderness of existence. Van de Kamp's is a world made magical through art. She is canny, funny, filmic, but she can also stop your heart with the sudden apprehension of how time moves through us, \"coaxing us \/ to bear something so much larger than ourselves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Sheila Black, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBeauty is a Verb\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eIron Ardent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 86\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.21 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42744502714431,"sku":"9781736672112","price":31.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/43f73f7b205a4f52676fff5d9f329f2f.webp?v=1765168446","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ricochet-script-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}